Abstract
The Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK) (the Faculty) has been intimately involved in the plans to introduce dentists with special interests (DwSIs) into the National Health Service (NHS).1 It was therefore appropriate that the Faculty combined with the Faculty of Dental Surgery (FDS) of The Royal College of Surgeons of England to host a national event on Thursday, 21st April 2005 on the topic. The aims of this study day were to provide:
• An update on the development work to implement a scheme for DwSIs.
• Details of the clinical competency frameworks developed as guidance for practitioners and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in each of the four clinical areas designated as the first in which DwSIs will work.
The event was sold out with an audience of over 260 drawn from all areas of dentistry, and included clinicians from both primary and secondary care and administrators from PCTs and other NHS bodies.
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